{"583859":{"#nid":"583859","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dr. Bethany Jacobs presents at Celebrating African American Literature and Language (CAALL) conference ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAt the recent Celebrating African American Literature and Language (CAALL) conference at Penn State, Dr. Bethany Jacobs presented her paper, \u0026ldquo;Playing with Authenticity in the Afrofuturist Albums of Janelle Mon\u0026aacute;e.\u0026rdquo; Dr. Jacobs discussed her success teaching Janelle Mon\u0026aacute;e\u0026rsquo;s albums in her ENGL 1102 Black Science Fiction course. Her students have placed Mon\u0026aacute;e in conversation with the Georgia Tech Science Fiction Archives, campus events like \u0026ldquo;Afrofuturism and Environmental Justice,\u0026rdquo; and community events like the Atlanta Sci-Fi Film Festival. In her paper, Dr. Jacobs argued that Mon\u0026aacute;e\u0026rsquo;s albums compel a nuanced exploration of how the past, present, and future converge in black science fiction.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETeaching students this lesson has been uniquely possible at Georgia Tech, where the access to wide-ranging events, scholars, and art creates an ideal landscape for sci-fi exploration.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wcprogram.lmc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/c0136c26-7ab1-5ed5-af18-c0fa46c21f47\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Bethany Jacobs\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E received her PhD from the University of Oregon in 2014. She teaches and researches Afrofuturism, U.S. multiethnic women\u0026rsquo;s literature, and histories of social protest\u003Cem\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Efor which she has developed composition textbooks at the University of Oregon. Her essay \u0026quot;Woman Like You: Troubling Same-Sex Desire in Gayl Jones\u0026#39;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ECorregidora\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EEva\u0026#39;s Man\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026quot;\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ehas been published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ECallaloo,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand her article \u0026quot;Mothering Herself: Manifesto of the Erotic Mother in Audre Lorde\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EZami\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026quot; has been published with\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMELUS.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EHer current book project,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ERefusing Mothers: Dystopia and Multiethnic Literature,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eargues that contemporary speculative literature by Chicana and African American women writers depicts motherhood as an inherently dystopic subject position, one that indicts the work of mid-century social justice movements for failing to include mothers in their liberatory visions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMore about the conference can be found on\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/arc.psu.edu\/caal2016\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/arc.psu.edu\/caal2016\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dr. Bethany Jacobs presented her paper, \u201cPlaying with Authenticity in the Afrofuturist Albums of Janelle Mon\u00e1e.\u201d"}],"uid":"33884","created_gmt":"2016-11-14 19:14:27","changed_gmt":"2016-11-14 19:20:13","author":"Gayatri Gaekwad","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-11-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-11-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"583857":{"id":"583857","type":"image","title":"Dr. Bethany Jacobs","body":null,"created":"1479150826","gmt_created":"2016-11-14 19:13:46","changed":"1479150826","gmt_changed":"2016-11-14 19:13:46","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222587","name":"Z.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Z_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Z_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":20157,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Z_0.jpg?itok=4oNDM2hg"}},"583856":{"id":"583856","type":"image","title":"Playing with Authenticity in the Afrofuturist Albums of Janelle Mon\u00e1e.","body":null,"created":"1479150795","gmt_created":"2016-11-14 19:13:15","changed":"1479151168","gmt_changed":"2016-11-14 19:19:28","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222586","name":"tumblr_mtsumoESnp1s5qs0yo5_1280.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tumblr_mtsumoESnp1s5qs0yo5_1280.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tumblr_mtsumoESnp1s5qs0yo5_1280.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":226532,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tumblr_mtsumoESnp1s5qs0yo5_1280.jpg?itok=QO8eDWBs"}}},"media_ids":["583857","583856"],"groups":[{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}